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Al-Quds University
Do You Moodle?Do You Moodle?
Rashid Jayousi, PhDComputer Science [email protected]
Al-Quds University’s experience in E-learningAl-Quds University’s experience in E-learning
Presentation Overview
• IT service at Al-Quds University
• Overview about Moodle
• Al-Quds University’s experience
SKITCI Mission
• Operates at local and national levels to provide high quality and effective training for students as well as practitioners in the field of information technology.
Curriculum Development & Production of Training Material
• SKITCE is recognized for its high quality and tailor-made training packages.
• Develop packages to meet changing needs. • Prepare quality training packages for the new
training areas identified in the Operational Plan. • Prepare and design tailor-made training
packages for national specialist training institutions.
• Upgrade staff skills in designing materials that incorporate new teaching technology
What is Moodle?
• software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites
• ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education
• provided freely as Open Source software
Reference: http://moodle.org
Features
Overall Design• Suitable for 100% online classes • Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, and
secure • Course listing shows descriptions for every
course on the server, including accessibility to guests.
• Courses can be categorized and searched• One Moodle site can support thousands of
courses• embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
Reference: http://moodle.org
Features
Site and User Management• Flexibility to change / customize the
site’s design• Multilingual- currently 43 languages
including Arabic• Three types of users
– Admin: overall system management (i.e. create courses, upgrade users)
– Teacher: assigned courses management– Student: Enrollment in courses
Reference: http://moodle.org
Features
Course management• A full teacher has full control over all settings for
a course, including restricting other teachers• Choice of course formats (week, topic,
discussion focused)• Flexible array of course activities (Forums,
Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops )
• Track of recent changes to the course• All grades for Forums, Journals, Quizzes and
Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)
Reference: http://moodle.org
Al-Quds experience
• Al-Quds University has decided to embrace the concept of electronic learning in the summer of 2004
• Claroline, a Learning/Content management system was used during Summer 2004 (http://www.claroline.net)
• Due to functionality and security limitation of Claroline, Moodle was adopted as the official E-learning system (http://moodle.org)
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Summer 2004Installation and use of Claroline
Fall 2004/5Installation and use of Moodle
Spring 2004/5Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts.
Summer 2005Use of Moodle still limited to the CS and IT depts.
Fall 2005/6Other faculties started to use Moodle. Total number of classes: 52!
End of Fall 2005/6Training sessions are to e conducted (starting December 20th) to train all academic staff on the use of Moodle
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